Washington state's outgoing governor, Chris Gregoire (D.), has been added to the list of contenders for the top job at EPA, and President Obama is "about to nominate" Gregoire, according to a report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Gregoire led Washington's Department of Ecology before being elected attorney general in 1992, the report says. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced on 27 December that she will step down from her post after President Obama's State of the Union address later this month. Jackson's deputy administrator...